>>/36642/ Digg on HEU [Highly-Enriched Uranium] > Gorbachev was in office... Mikhail Gorbachev & The Dissolution of the Soviet Union | 1991 > I have a hunch he is a globalist Club of Madrid Green Cross International Club of Rome Earth Charter Gorbachev Foundation, (headquartered in San Francisco) https://infogalactic.com/info/Mikhail_Gorbachev Glasnost & Perestroika Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union while maintaining control by the Communist Party was not achieved. The policy allowed Soviet citizens to speak out and criticise the Communist Party and the Soviet system itself. It also inadvertently released long-suppressed national sentiments in the republic states that wanted to assert their independence; undermining the authority of the Soviet central-government. Both policies exposed the extremely weak Soviet Economic system when the discipline of the Communist Party was removed. In December 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved months after the August failed coup by conservative elements who were alarmed by the forces unleashed by Gorbachev's reforms. https://infogalactic.com/info/Glasnost https://infogalactic.com/info/Perestroika Dissolution of the Soviet Union The final round of the Soviet Union's collapse began with a Ukrainian popular referendum on December 1, 1991, in which 90 percent of voters opted for independence. The secession of Ukraine, the second-most powerful republic, ended any realistic chance of Gorbachev keeping the Soviet Union together even on a limited scale. The leaders of the three principal Slavic republics, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (formerly Byelorussia), agreed to discuss possible alternatives to the union. https://infogalactic.com/info/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union